Google's Jigsaw subsidiary is building open source AI tools to spot trolls

Can Google bring peace to the web with machine learning? Jigsaw, a subsidiary of parent company Alphabet is certainly trying, building open-source AI tools designed to filter out abusive language. A new feature from *Wired* describes how the software has been trained on some 17 million comments left underneath *New York Times* stories, along with 13,000 discussions on Wikipedia pages. This data is labeled and then fed into the software — called Conversation AI — which begins to learn what bad comments look like